Beeldléí (blanket), ca. 1868.
Handspun wool and raveled threads in bundles, 74.9 x 101.6 cm. (23.2770)

All books are adult level, unless otherwise indicated.

Bennett, Noel, & Tiana Bighorse, Working with the Wool: How to Weave a Navajo Rug, 1971, 1983, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ.

Bennett, Noel, Designing with the Wool: Advanced Techniques in Navajo Weaving, 1979, and The Weaver's Pathway: A Clarification of the "Spirit Trail" in Navajo Weaving, 1974. Both books are from Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ.

Berlant, Anthony, and Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, Walk in Beauty: The Navajo & Their Blankets, 1977, New York Graphics Society, Boston.

Blomberg, Nancy J., Navajo Textiles: The William Randolph Hearst Collection, 1988, The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Blood, Charles L., & Martin Link, The Goat in the Rug, by Geraldine, illustrations by Nancy Windslow Parker, 1976, 1990, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. For children.

Bonar, Eulalie H., editor, Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Navajo Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian, 1996, Smithsonian Institution Press (in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution), Washington, DC.

Bryan, Nonobah G., Navajo Native Dyes: Their Preparation & Use, 1940, bound with Hopi Dyes by Mary-Russell Colton, 1965, Historic Indian Publishers, Salt Lake City, Utah. Historic Indian Publishers reprint published 1994.

Campbell, Tyrone D., Historic Navajo Weaving, 1800-1900: Three Cultures; One Loom, 1987, Avanyu Publications, Albuquerque, NM.

Campbell, Tyrone D., Joel Kopp, & Kate Kopp, Navajo Pictorial Weaving, 1880-1950, 1991, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Dedera, Don, Navajo Rugs: How to Find, Evaluate, Buy, & Care for Them, 1975, revised edition 1990, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ.

Dockstader, Frederick J., Weaving Arts of the North American Indian, 1978, revised 1993, HarperCollins Publishers, Icon Editions division, New York.

Fisher, Nora, Rio Grande Textiles, 1994, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe. A new edition of Spanish Textile Tradition of New Mexico & Colorado, 1979.

Harmsen, W.D., editor, Patterns & Sources of Navajo Weaving, 1977, Harmsen Publishing Co., Denver, CO. Photos by F. C. Hilker.

Hedlund, Ann Lane, Reflections of the Weaver's World: The Gloria Ross Collection of Contemporary Navajo Weaving, 1992, Denver Art Museum, Denver.

Houlihan, Patrick, et al, Harmony by Hand, Art of the Southwestern Indians: Basketry, Weaving, Pottery, 1987, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.

James, George Wharton, Indian Blankets & their Makers, 1974, Dover Publishing Co, New York.

James, H.L., Rugs & Posts: The Story of Navajo Weaving & Indian Trading, 1988, Schiffer Publishing, West Chester, PA.

Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt, and Anthony Berlant, The Navajo Blanket, 1972, Praeger Publishers, in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Kent, Kate Peck, Navajo Weaving: Three Centuries of Change, 1985, School of American Research Press, Santa Fe. Distributed by the University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Micquiston, Don, & Debra Micquiston, The Woven Spirit of the Southwest, 1995, Chronicle Books, San Francisco.

Reichard, Gladys A., Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers & Chanters, 1934, Macmillan Company, New York.

Reichard, Gladys A., Weaving a Navajo Blanket, 1974, Dover Publications, New York. First published in 1936 under the title, Navajo Shepherd & Weaver.

Rodee, Marian E., Old Navajo Rugs: Their Development from 1900 to 1940, 1981, and One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs, 1995, both from University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

Rodee, Marian E., Weaving of the Southwest from the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 1987, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., West Chester, PA.

Roessel, Robert A., Jr., Navajo Arts & Crafts, 1983, Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, Navajo Nation, Arizona.

Roessel, Monty (text & photos), Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave, 1995, Lerner Publications Company, Minneapolis. For children.

Schiffer, Nancy N., Navajo Weaving Today, 1991, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., West Chester, PA. Schiffer, Nancy, Pictorial Weaving of the Navajo, 1991, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., West Chester, PA.

Thompson, Peggy (text), & Paul Conklin (photos), Katie Henio: Navajo Sheepherder, 1995, Cobblehill Books/Dutton, New York. For children.

Williams, Lester L., C.N. Cotton & his Navajo Blankets, 1989, Avanyu Publishing, Albuquerque. Navajo Weaving Handbook, Compiled by the Editors of El Palacio Magazine.

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